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"Best of luck - a complete non story but better than them focusing on our drinks (which we seem to have got away with)." Martin ReynoldsPrincipal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

And Boris will stay because like a repeat offending drunk driver he promises to learn from his mistakes and will do better in future.

The first Soviet tank with a maximum height set for crew members because of the cramped interior. Slow, inaccurate gun, and a cartridge ejection system that tends to miss the discard hatch and throws the shell casings around inside the turret.

4 miles in a week.

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You cannot change the Second Amendment. Of course you can, the clue is in the name ! The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed.

14 primary school children and their teacher killed in a Texas school shooting. It's becoming such a 'normal' event that the shock value is no longer there.

He did say "as British as fish and chips" - much of the Queen's ancestry is German, so you are both correct.

But no rules were broken : no sir, not one. ( Other than those resulting in 125 fines, which looks like it represents only a fraction of what would have been issued to you or I ). No parties took place, but there were 'leaving dos" with fancy food, dancing, and crates of bubbly; "working meetings" with fancy food, dancing, crates of bubbly, and people sitting on each other's laps; and co-incidental ad-hoc 'water cooler' discussion, although they actually took place around drinks fridges, where fancy food just happened to be lying around, crates of bubbly mysteriously materialised, and 30 people maintained 2metre Social Distancing in a 20 foot square room.

If somebody offered you a 2 day holiday with no strings attached, would you refuse it ?

There weren't bartenders, but there certainly were barstewards.

I predict Saints will not 'move on' as many as we on here want, and we will be underwhelmed by those that are brought in.

You obviously don't work in 10 Downing Street.

I suppose it makes a change from standing on your door step clapping.

So Boris could say goodbye to Lee Cain, but others couldn't say goodbye to dying relatives.

He doesn't have to be shown to have lied, merely deliberately misled. Relying on such semantics to distort rather than break the truth shows what a corrupt, slimey, slug he is.

You weren't operating under lockdown rules.

Does the semantic definition matter, it should have been clear to the man who was responsible for drawing up and implementing the law that his rules were being broken.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410 "Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together, sat on each other's laps and how party debris was left out overnight. For the first time, insiders who were at some of the events have told BBC Panorama in detail what they saw. They describe arriving for work the morning after a get-together to find bottles lying around parts of the building, bins overflowing with rubbish and empties left on the table. They also tell of events with dozens of staff crowded together, and parties going so late that, on occasion, some ended up staying in Downing Street all night. And they say staff mocked others who tried to stop what was going on." ……......................... " Speaking anonymously, three insiders have opened up about a world behind No 10's famous front door where the lockdown rules the country was living by were routinely ignored, socialising was regular, with, they felt, the prime minister's implicit permission. One staffer describes director of communications Lee Cain's leaving do, the event on 13 November 2020, where the prime minister has been pictured raising a glass, but for which he has not been fined. Others have been judged to have broken the law for being there and received penalties. Mr Johnson attended and made a speech to thank Mr Cain, but as the party developed "there were about 30 people, if not more, in a room. Everyone was stood shoulder to shoulder, some people on each other's laps…one or two people." ................. "The insiders admit that events were routine. "They were every week," one says. "The event invites for Friday press office drinks were just nailed into the diary." The invitation was known as "WTF" - meaning "Wine-Time Friday" and a reference to a less polite acronym. The drinks were often scheduled in No 10 for 4pm. Sources say Friday drinks had been a tradition in Whitehall for some time. But drinking wasn't limited to Fridays. One former official describes turning up at work in No 10 often to find "A mess! There were bottles, empties, rubbish - in the bin, but overflowing - or indeed sometimes left on the table." At the party on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral on 16 April 2021, they portray a "lively event... a general party with people dancing around". The gathering becoming so loud that security guards in the building told them to leave the building and go into the No 10 grounds. "So everyone grabbed all the drinks, the food, everything, and went into the garden," one source says. "We all sat around the tables drinking. People stayed the night there."" ................. "But all three point to the culture set by the prime minister himself, suggesting he "wanted to be liked" and for staff to be able to "let their hair down". One suggests they felt like they had the prime minister's permission to socialise even it meant breaking the rules because "He was there." "He may have just been popping through on the way to his flat because that's what would happen," they add. "You know, he wasn't there saying this shouldn't be happening. "He wasn't saying, 'Can everyone break up and go home? Can everyone socially distance? Can everyone put masks on?' "No, he wasn't telling anybody that. He was grabbing a glass for himself.""

He stated in Parliament that no party took place on that date. Whether he personally "attended", rather than dropped by for a couple of minutes, doesn't matter, he clearly knew it was happening.

How many of the Man City "fans" remember, let alone supported them during, the ( third division) playoff victory ?

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Downing Street's line is that because the official photographer was there, Boris was working.

NHS trusts are opening food banks for their staff.

We didn't get a 9-0 this season ; things are definitely improving.